[Originally by The Boomtown Rats]

The silicon chip inside her head

gets switched to overload
and nobody's gonna go to school today
she's gonna make them stay at home

And Daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reason

Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need to be shown


[Chorus:]
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays

I want to shoot
The whole day down


The telex machine is kept so clean
and it types to waiting world.
And Mother feels so shocked

Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl

Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen
No it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
They can see no reasons

Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need to be shown


[Repeat Chorus]

All the playing's stopped in the playground now

She wants to play with her toys awhile
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
That the lesson today is how to die

And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain tackles
With the problems and the how's and why's

And he can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need to die


[Repeat Chorus]